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By Kelly Gurnett You've really done it this time. You blew the deadline on THE big project. You sent an email to the wrong person (the absolute worst person, actually) thanks to address auto-fill.
By Heather Huhman Mistakes happen. Let's say you were absent from a high-priority client meeting, dropped the ball on a big account, or maybe even mishandled a large sum of company money. While ...
The acknowledgement of "mistakes" is framed in an abstract sense with no direct reference to who made the mistakes. An active voice construction would be along the lines of "I made mistakes" or "John Doe made mistakes." The speaker neither accepts personal responsibility nor accuses anyone else. The word "mistakes" also does not imply intent.
Mea culpa / ˌ m eɪ. ə ˈ k ʊ l. p ə / is a phrase originating from Latin that means my fault or my mistake and is an acknowledgment of having done wrong. [1] The expression is used also as an admission of having made a mistake that should have been avoided and, in a religious context, may be accompanied by symbolically beating the breast when uttering the words.
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It is regularly used in accounting, to "excuse slight mistakes or oversights." [2] It is also used when a large amount of information is listed against a product, to ...